Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High with her colorful personality, suddenly finds herself shunned for her refusal to conform

Hamilton 7th Grade Summer Reading 2018

Hamilton 7th Grade Required Summer Reading: For English,

In June: Read or use Learning Ally for a free choicebook, email Mrs. Harris a summaryIn July: Read or use Learning Ally for another free choice, email Mrs. Harris a summaryIn August: Read or use Learning Ally for Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan, email Mrs. Harris a summary (heidiharris@wheelerschool.org)

Thank you!

Mrs. Harris

Becoming Naomi Leon
by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Call Number: Munoz Ryan

ISBN: 0439269695

Publication Date: 2004-09-01

Eleven-year-old Naomi's long-absent mother shows up at the trailer park where Naomi, her brother, and their great-grandmother have been happily living for the past seven years. With its quirky characterizations and folksy atmosphere, this engrossing family drama resembles a Sharon Creech novel on the surface, but it has its own uniquely affecting emotional core.

Hamilton 8th Grade Summer Reading 2018

Hamilton 8th Grade should read, A Long Journey Home, by Julius Lester. and A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

As you read A Long Journey Home by Julius Lester, take brief notes at the top of each page. Each note should mention a character and an action.

Your creative assignment for A Long Journey Home is to make a 6 window cartoon (one page or poster board sectioned into 6 squares). Each window should depict an event from one of the 6 chapters in the book. At the bottom of each window, write a sentence of your own about the event depicted. On the first day of school, bring in the book containing your notes and the cartoon. Long Journey Home books were given to students in school during the transition meeting with Mrs. R.

Read A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park (available at Follett website), and take notes - chapter by chapter - in the packet that was provided in school during the transition meeting with Mrs. R. Bring in the book and the completed packet on the first day of school.

H8 Summer Writing:

Write a 250+ word, typed, descriptive, three paragraph essay explaining how you feel about independent reading as an activity. In the body (middle) paragraph, mention a few themes and characters from books you have read, and write about why you think you remember those best. Plan on writing down some notes first, (early July) and handwriting a rough draft or detailed outline (mid-late July) to be handed in along with the final, typed essay (August). Notes, outline/rough draft, and final essay are due the first day of school.

Thank you,

Mrs. Richardson

A Long Journey Home
by Julius Lester

ISBN: 0140389814

Publication Date: 1998-01-01

Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows the only way to stay free is to keep moving. Louis is another runaway, fleeing the plantation where he was raised, because he is about to be sold